30 Must-Know SAQs: Through the Looking-Glass
1. How old is Alice in the story?
Alice is seven and a half years old when her adventures in the Looking-Glass World begin.
2. What is the Looking-Glass House?
It is an imaginary world on the other side of the mirror where everything is backward and reversed.
3. Who is Kitty?
Kitty is Alice's black pet kitten whom she is playing with at the start of the story.
4. What is 'Jabberwocky'?
It is a famous nonsense poem found by Alice in a book inside the Looking-Glass House.
5. How does Alice enter the Looking-Glass World?
Alice climbs up onto the fireplace mantel and steps directly through the surface of the mirror.
6. What game does the story's structure represent?
The entire story and Alice’s movements are structured like a giant game of competitive chess.
7. Which chess piece does Alice represent?
Alice starts the game as a White Pawn and aims to reach the eighth square to become Queen.
8. What is special about the Talking Flowers?
In the garden, flowers like the Tiger-lily can speak and they often criticize or insult Alice’s appearance.
9. Who brings Alice into the chess game?
The Red Queen meets Alice in the garden and explains the rules of the giant chess game.
10. What happens in the Wood of No Names?
Alice completely forgets her own name and the names of all objects while traveling through this forest.
11. Who are Tweedledum and Tweedledee?
They are a pair of identical, fat twin men who recite poems and argue over a broken rattle.
12. What is the Red King doing when Alice meets him?
The Red King is fast asleep and snoring loudly in the middle of the forest.
13. What theory do the twins have about Alice?
They tell Alice that she is not real and only exists as a character in the Red King’s dream.
14. How does time work for the White Queen?
Time moves backward for her; she remembers things before they happen and feels pain before being hurt.
15. What does the White Queen turn into?
While in a shop, the White Queen suddenly transforms into a knitting Sheep.
16. Who is Humpty Dumpty?
He is an egg-shaped character from a nursery rhyme who sits on a wall and talks about meanings.
17. What does Humpty Dumpty say about his name?
He believes names should have meanings and criticizes Alice because her name doesn't mean anything specific.
18. Why does the White King send his men?
The White King sends thousands of horses and men to try and put Humpty Dumpty together again.
19. Who are the Lion and the Unicorn?
They are two mythical characters who are fighting for the White King’s crown in the town.
20. What deal does the Unicorn make with Alice?
The Unicorn agrees to believe in Alice if she agrees to believe in him as a real creature.
21. Who captures Alice as a prisoner?
The Red Knight gallops up and captures Alice, claiming her as his prisoner of war.
22. Who rescues Alice from the Red Knight?
The White Knight arrives, defeats the Red Knight in a clumsy duel, and saves Alice.
23. Describe the White Knight’s personality.
He is a kind, eccentric, and noble inventor who creates many useless but bizarre gadgets.
24. What happens when Alice reaches the eighth square?
Alice crosses a final brook, reaches the eighth square, and find a golden crown on her head.
25. What is 'Queen Alice’s Party'?
It is a chaotic banquet held to celebrate Alice becoming a Queen, ending in complete madness.
26. How does Alice wake up?
Frustrated by the chaos at the party, Alice shakes the Red Queen, which causes her to wake up.
27. Who is the narrator of the poem 'Jabberwocky'?
The poem doesn't have a specific narrator; it is a piece of literature found within the dream.
28. What does the mirror symbolize?
The mirror symbolizes the boundary between reality and the imaginative, inverted world of a child's dream.
29. What is the central question at the end?
Alice wonders whether the dream was hers or if she was actually part of the Red King’s dream.
30. Who is the author of this book?
The book was written by Lewis Carroll and published in 1871 as a sequel to his first book.
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